Means for waving hair



g- 12, 1952 J. c. E. BUTTERFIELD 2,606,564

' MEANS FOR WAVING HAIR Filed Aug. 10, 1950 W 1 ET?! 2 INVENTOR Patented Aug. 12, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MEANS FOR WAVING nAm John C. E.Butterfield, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Application AugustlO, 1950, Serial No. 178,592

- 4 Claims. 1

This invention relates to the dressing or treatment of womens hair to give it what is commonly referred to as a permanent wave. In waving hair, it is usual to treat the hair with a chemical Or other material and then form the waves by rolling strands of groups .of hair, usually in conjunction with a moist strip of paper, on to rollers or curlers of various kinds, and keeping the hair wound on said rollers or curlers sufficiently long for the chemical or other treating material to have its effect on the hair. In some cases additional chemical'or treating material, or heat treatment, is applied to the hair while it is wound on the rollers or curlers.

It is generally quite a difficult task to divide the hair into strands or groups and to arrang the hair'in each strand or group in substantial parallelism to facilitate the rolling up of'the strands of hair with the paper as a flat strip.

It is the object of the present invention to devise means to facilitate the separation of the hair into separat strands or groups, and to arrange the hair in each strand or group into a substantially fiat strip with the individual hairs in approximately parallel relationship, and to provide means for holding the hair in 'each strand in said flat parallel relationship while it is being wound upon the roller or curler.

This object is attained by the employment of the means hereinafter-more fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of a strand assembling tool;

Fig. 2 an end view of the same;

Fig. 3 an elevation of a modified form of strand assembling tool;

Fig. 4 a perspective view of the strand holding and winding means;

Fig. 5 a longitudinal section through the same;

Fig. 6 an end View of the same with the curler spool removed;

Fig. 7 a detail longitudinal section of the strand holding and winding means;

Fig. 8 an elevation of the winding roll of curler; and

Fig. 9 a plan view of the paper wrapping for the end of the hair strand.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

In waving hair, it is usual to form each Wave from a strand composed of the hair from an area of the scalp of approximately equal size. Certain hairdressers, for example, make each strand 2 consistof'the hair growing in an area approximately 2 x 1" and the hair of each of said area is arranged to form. a flat strip or strand having a width of approximately 1%. It'will be evident, however, that the size of the area from which the hair is formed into a separate strand may be varied to suit special individual requirements.

The feature of the present invention is the provision of means for facilitating the arranging of the hair into a substantially flat strand with the hairs arranged in substantially parallel relationship, and the provision of means for maintaining the hair in the form of a flat strand and facilitate its being wound upon'the roller or curler, and at the same time obtain more uniformity in the waves. g

p Thefirst step in the process is to grasp with one hand the hair growing in agiven area of thescalp and arrange it in the form of a flat strand with the individual hairs arranged substantially parallel. This may be conveniently accomplished by means of the comb A shown-in Figs. 1 and 2, which comb is provided at one side with a group of diverging teeth I, which teeth will collect the hair intermediate the outer ends of the two outermost teeth, and, when forced through the hair, will gradually guide the hair within the width of the comb at the inner ends of the teeth. The hair in the narrowed formation is rasped while the comb is removed. If further narrowing is desired, the comb may be used a second time by engaging the intermediate teeth with the hair.

The straight teeth 2 may be used as an ordinary comb or may be used to maintain the hair in the flat strand form.

In Fig. 3 is shown a modified form of tool B for reducing the width of the strand of hair. In this form the teeth 3 act in the same manner as teeth I in the tool A of Fig. 1.

A suitable type of curler or roller is shown in Fig. 8, in which a long spool 4 is rotatably mounted on a stem 5, on which stem is hingedly connected a keeper 6. which is provided with a rib 1 adapted to engage with radially arranged teeth 8 on the end of the spool.

To shorten and simplify the work of rolling the strand of hair on to the spool of the curler, a special guide frame is provided. This guide frame comprises a platform 9 provided with an upwardly directed flange l2 at each side. At the forward end of this platform is provided a series of teeth or separators I0. Preferably the platform 9 has its rear portion 9* slightly below 3 the level of the forward portion, as will be seen in Fig. 5, to form a transverse shoulder H on its upper surface.

At each side of the guide fram is mounted aspring arm [4, which is bent to form a loop I l 5 at the rear end of the platform, and then extends forwardly to a position near the forward end of the side flange [2, as shown in Fig. 4.

Thisguideframe is used asfollows. A binding paper, such .asillustrated in plan in Fig-,9, l0

and which has been suitably moistened, is first positioned with its wide end over the depressed portion 9 of the platform with its end butting against the shoulder l I and with itsiside portions bent upwardly inside the .fianges l2. assuming that the narrow flat strand of-haii. has been prepared as described: above, the-.strandjs then laid over the platform 9 with the teeth l0 projecting between the parts of the strand to maintain the strand inilflat form, and with the h'ain'iends ;lying:ov.er the paperbinding adjacent .ithe spool 4, which spool isrmounted'inttherloops 'flt'sas indicatedrin Fig. 4.

. Ihe narrow end of the binding paper is then -bent forwardly to -overlie the hair and-theside edges ofthe -underportion "bent :thereovers thus forminga: container for the end- :of w the hair strand.

--The-paperwith the end of the hair strand therein-is then w ound abo'utthe spool 4, and as-r= ,thestrand is-wound, the spool is rolled forwardly overthe platform beinglheldin place against the upper-edges of thelfiangesl 2-by..the..spring arms 1,4, as indicatedin Fig. 5. .Aslthewinding. con- ,tinueslf the spool will become. disengaged fromthe 3.35

"springxarms "l 4 and anyaddltional length of 'the strand maybe wound upon 'the spool. ."Wlien winding is complete, the keeper Bis. moved to the position .shown' irr'Eig." 8..to-. prevehtiunwinding or thestr'and frornthe spool.

The:same,: procedure will be followedl'inwaving theistrands formedjof hair on' other...portions offthe scalp.

The hair"is allowedtoremain on; the curlers until such time asthe chemical or' other materials '-employed to treat the hair has had the desired effect.

The straight toothedportion 2 of the comb A'is of-arwidth tofit between'the fianges of the guide *frameso the comb maybe used to assist in po'si- 5 tio'ning the strand onthe -platform-of the guide Zirame.

What I- cla'im is:

1. For use in waving hair, a guide frame comprising a platform having a retaining flange at opposite sides thereof, said platform having transversely arranged hair engaging teeth adjacent one end thereof; a pair of longitudinally directed arms secured to the other end of the platform and extending towards the teeth and cooperating with the flanges to form between ..them .spool guides.

2: For. use :in waving' hair, a guide frame comprising a platform having a retaining flange at opposite sides thereof, said platform having "transversely arranged hair engaging teeth adjaace'ntmne end thereof; a pair of longitudinally Now, ..directed armssecured to the other end of the platform"and"extending towards the teeth and :.:'cooperatingi:with..the flanges to form between themgspool guides, the surface of the platform at "the end remote from the teeth being depressed below the level of the remainder of said surface.

3..For: usein waving haina guide iframacomprising a platform having: a" retaining flangeiat opposite lsides" thereof, ".Sl'ld platform having transversely arranged hair engaging teeth adjacentz'oneendxthereof;a pair of. longitudinally directed 'springarms secured to the other. end of -Jthe: platform and extending towards the: teeth andcooperating with'the' flanges to form between themqspool. guides.

4;For'use'in wavingh'air, a' guide frame: com- :prising agplatform-havingl aretaining flange at opposite sides thereof, said platform: having .itransversely arranged hair-engagingteeth adjacent one end thereofpa pairpf longitudinally directed arms securedxto. the other end; of the "platform-wand extending. towards :the teeth" and -cooperating with the flangesto form .spoolguides, said-v arms being shaped to form a spool-supporting loop at the end'ofthe pla'tforin.

2.40 J 0111]. C.- E. BUTTERF'IELD.

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